As hydraulic excavators gained industry acceptance in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the market for the small cable-operated excavators that had been produced by the thousands since the 1920s rapidly ...
In 1930 two enterprising farm boys, Vern and Wilbur Schield, put together $1,000 to purchase a “good for nothing” 40 acres of land near Waverly, Iowa, and successfully quarried agricultural lime from ...